Please get one of the folks in your office who is more fluent in English to resubmit this, so we can understand the point which you are trying to make. (We know you have some, because we have seen their posts here from time to time.) Thank you.

All Libyans have high hopes for this elections and I think the results of this election will be surprise to everyone .Most of the people I know here in Benghazi think that the current Transitional Counsel should be retired they have nothing more to offer the country needs an elected body to run the country and this election is the way to send them to retirement .The elected Benghazi Counsel are respected and supported by most people here and the same will be for the elected members in the national congress.

Not one word about the very undemocratic nature of this "first free" election. Laws have been passed that outlaw certain kinds of ideas and thoughts (namely those espoused by Col. Gaddafi. And any candidate who even got a University scholarship under the old Government are banned form participation - never mind anyone who worked in the Government, which includes about all the smartest people in the country. Not a word about any of that. Why spoil the party. Islamists win again, and we are supposed to be pleased.

Educate yourself. That law was scrapped by high court of Libya. And rest of your post is pure rubbish, Mahmoud Jibril worked for the Gaddafi, yet he participates in elections. Ali al-Sallabi worked for Saif al-Islam, yet he heads his own party, in other words you know nothing about Libya.

I am aware of the court's decision on free speech. That was good news - except that the real forces on the ground paid it no mind and continue to lock up thousands of people just because they don't have the "right" view of revolution that has torn apart their country. But I was referring to confirmed facts on the ground regarding the election process. The fact is there is a committee of un-elected rebels who somehow have the authority to ban whomever they see fit from political life in Libya. They have banned political parties and several dozen candidates. They explicitly ban anyone who got a college degree paid for by the old government (as well as old members of the Government). This was confirmed by the NTC. It is sad that this reporting remains hidden to most of the world as no one wants to speak of it.

If you are aware of it, why use it as argument? Anyway, those imprisoned are under lock for some time now and so far AI or HRW which were allowed in those prisons saw only former pro-Gaddafi combatants (although, true, some deny it and claim that it is just a mistake or result of some family feud or something), not political prisoners. Also Bani Walid hardly has "right view" on revolution, yet it was left alone. Toubou on other hand were one of the first who joined rebels and did large chunk of work in Sahara, yet there are ethnic clashes in Kufra up till this day as a result of decade long conflict between Arabs and Toubou. These clashes have little to nothing with ideology, but with unfinished business that was well presented before the fall of Gaddafi (in 2009 Gaddafi had to sent Mi-24s to Kufra to quell Toubou uprising). They have banned several dozen candidates from more than 3,000. Parties which were banned were banned not because of ideology, but because the filled out forms wrong, didnt have enough women on their list or no people at all. Administrative issues, not political. And because country is run by unelected body, there are elections.